Mike Maignan’s demands to renew his contract with AC Milan are high but there is the mutual desire to negotiate, according to a report.
According to Pietro Mazzara’s latest for MilanNews, Milan are continuing to work on some key renewals after managing to extend Rafael Leao’s contract, with Maignan among them.
The French goalkeeper is considered a fundamental player because he is one of the elite in his role while he also has charisma and leadership inside the dressing room.
His contract with Milan currently expires on 30 June 2026 and the agreement signed in 2021 provides for a salary of €2.8m net per year. A salary which, today, evidently does not reflect the real value of the player.
Milan knows this well as well as Maignan, who has made an initial request of €8m net per year to renew which is obviously a very pig pay rise and would see him surpass Leao as the top earner, who gets €7m-a-year including bonuses.
The importance of Maignan is indisputable, but it is also true that Milan are very attentive to the item relating to personnel costs and the demand for the goalkeeper is decidedly high, but there is room for negotiation.
The discussions between the club and the Frenchman’s entourage have not yet entered the heated phase but there is a continuous and constructive dialogue, with the parties having mutually expressed their desire to continue together.
It’s a question of money and arriving at a meeting point that satisfies everyone. Milan satisfied Maignan over the summer on some specific requests such as – for example – the stabilisation of the goalkeeping staff given the departures of Nelson Dida and Flavio Roma in the last two years.
Indeed it’s very pig request
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Goodbye Mike, its been fun, no “pig” pay rise for u, ciao
Given him the money
Ahem, no.
Think for half a second about the implications of that. Every player on the team will then be asking for a double or tripling of their salary, completely unsustainable.
Resign him for an appropriate amount, around five million, or sell for an enormous profit.
Nope. Not unless there is some clause in the contract that requires him to play a certain amount of games. Gets injured way too often to get that much money.
There should be a “games missed” clause, whereby his salary is reduced by a certain % correlating to the % of games missed. Probably won’t happen, as I’ve never seen this (I’ve seen the opposite, a bonus for appearances).
Buying a high class goalkeeper to replace Maignan and paying a salary will cost us a lot too.
Give Maignan a rise and keep him.
I think if they can manage to agree at 6.5M I would be OK with it. Szczęsny gets 6m, and Mike is better than him. It would only be fair to make Mike the highest paid GK in the league (although not by much), given that he is the best GK in the league. In the end it will be up to the club. This renewal seems like a complete coin toss.
8m? Dont think so. I think Milan should offer at most 6m.